Microsoft launched Office 365 globally three years ago and since then has cut pricing for the suite of cloud apps on several occasions. Now, it's raising Office 365 prices for some enterprise customers.

Seagate's acquisition of the old LSI PCIe flash storage technology from Avago, and Violin Memory's sale of its PCIe storage technology to Korea's SK Hynix, shows that the move to commoditize the technology is accelerating.

Intel's Maurits Tichelman tells Solutions Summit attendees that the company has a 'big, audacious goal' of selling 40 million tablets in 2014 and that one-third of those sales will be through the channel.

Counterfeiters are getting smarter and more, well, innovative every day. Solution providers that aren't careful about where they buy their gear could be putting their business, and their customers, at risk.

While blows to physical infrastructure grab headlines for disrupting global business, it is the possibility of a pandemic such as SARS that scares those whose job it is to protect the public or protect supply chains.

While a large group of EMC's investors continue to hope that EMC will sell parts of itself to create more clear valuation for them, EMC is likely heading in the opposite direction by considering more acquisitions, according to a top analyst.